01/23/2024
Hey everyone. This page stays pretty mellow… but I wanted to remind you I’m still here. 🍫 😇🍫
Facebook restricts a lot of things I might want to say, so I’ll speak in code sometimes. After being a bedside nurse for so many years, I prefer this kind of code to the other. 😅👌🏻😅
For now, I’m just introducing myself for some of the newbies. I’m Joanna… your favorite chocolatier… because I put the fun into your dessert. Quite literally. 💃🍫🕺
I left the bedside after realizing the life had been sucked from my soul. Not just from the long shifts and the corporate structure, but because as a nurse, it was always my role to help people navigate their choices. And somehow, cannabis just never got the respect it deserved as an option in western medicine. Over time, I found myself advocating for a plant that I didn’t even have a relationship with. So I had to eventually ask myself if bedside nursing would ever fulfill me the way it had when I bought my first stethoscope. 🩺👩⚕️🩺
Leaving the bedside to advocate for unconventional plant medicines has brought some of my life back. I love to challenge the status quo, to make people think, to encourage people to question what they’ve always thought to be true. It’s fun to expand my awareness, and it’s an even bigger pleasure to watch someone else expand their own awareness. 🧐🙇♀️🧐
As I pay attention to plant medicines, I cannot help but stand in awe of what psychedelic medicines hold in infinite potential. I watch. I listen. And I'm in awe. Truly. Passionate. Awe. 👍🏻🫢👍🏻
I’ll be at MAINE FUNGI FEST again this year, learning what others have to share, sharing what we know, excited to watch the potential unfold before our eyes. So please consider saving the date, coming by to say hi, or even messaging me to grab a cup of coffee or strike up a conversation before the big weekend.
Stay tuned.
~Joanna